VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-6483

high
Published 2016-09-02 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
8.6
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.6

Description

The media-file upload feature in vBulletin before 3.8.7 Patch Level 6, 3.8.8 before Patch Level 2, 3.8.9 before Patch Level 1, 4.x before 4.2.2 Patch Level 6, 4.2.3 before Patch Level 2, 5.x before 5.2.0 Patch Level 3, 5.2.1 before Patch Level 1, and 5.2.2 before Patch Level 1 allows remote attackers to conduct SSRF attacks via a crafted URL that results in a Redirection HTTP status code.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
91%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
vbulletinvbulletin3.8.7
vbulletinvbulletin3.8.8
vbulletinvbulletin3.8.9
vbulletinvbulletin4.2.2
vbulletinvbulletin4.2.3
vbulletinvbulletin5.2.0
vbulletinvbulletin5.2.1
vbulletinvbulletin5.2.2

References

CWEs

CWE-918

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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